MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Wairarapa Age, 11 February 1927, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

JUDGMENTS FOR DEBT. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases in the Magistrate’s Court at Masterton yesterday:— R. C. Anderson v. James Cranston, £1 6s 8(1; Th os. Rosyth v. W. Udy, £2 3s; J. Simonex v. Jack Laurie, £5 Os 6d; Vincent Lucas v. W. Condon, £l6 ss. In a judgment summons case, Edgar Wilton was ordered to pay the sum of £3 18s 6d io F. C. Evans, grocer, in default, four days’ imprisonment. The Masterton 1 Farmers’ Implement Co. (in liquidation) proceeded against W. J. Winter, to recover £8 15s 4d alleged to be owing for iron and rubber work done on a gig for plaintiff. Mr. G. D. Wilson appeared for plaintiff, and Mr? J. Macfarlane Laing for defendant. After hearing the evidence of W. E. Chamberlain (liquidator of the plaintiff company), Robert Crawford (the ooachsmith who did the work in 1923), Charles B. Hoare (coachbuilder for plaintiff company in 1923), also of the defendant, William Joseph Winter (who said he had been quoted by Mr. Leach £8 10s for the whole job, and contended that the iron work arranged for had not been completed), and William Armitage, blacksmith (who said the ironwork on the gig was not completed), His Worship said that it appeared to him that the sum sued for was quite a reasonable charge for the work done. Judgment would be given for plaintiff for the £8 15s 4d claimed, with witnesses’ expenses £2 Us Bd, Court costs £l, and solicitor’s fee £1 6s.